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Romans 1:24

Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their own hearts to [sexual] impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin],

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Conscience;   Crime;   Gentiles;   Holy Spirit;   Idolatry;   Lasciviousness;   Rome;   Sodomy;   Wicked (People);   Scofield Reference Index - Holy Spirit;   Thompson Chain Reference - Chastity-Impurity;   Corruption;   Depravity;   Error;   Forsaken;   Impurity;   Nation, the;   Sin;   Sin's;   Sin-Saviour;   Transgression;   Wicked, the;   The Topic Concordance - Service;   Sexual Activities;   Uncleanness;   Worship;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Defile, Defilement;   Rome, Romans;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Cain;   Concubine;   Divorce;   Fornication;   Gentile;   Heart;   Idol, idolatry;   Judgment;   Marriage;   Mission;   Nature;   Noah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Condemnation;   Evil;   Hardening, Hardness of Heart;   Hell;   Homosexuality;   Idol, Idolatry;   Immorality, Sexual;   Marriage;   Providence of God;   Romans, Theology of;   Sanctification;   Sin;   Time;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Christianity;   Judgment, Last;   Omnipotence of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Idolatry;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Acts of the Apostles;   Micaiah;   Noah;   Romans, the Epistle to the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Concupiscence;   Gentiles;   Godlessness;   Heart;   Judgment Day;   Lust;   Regeneration;   Romans, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Galatians, Epistle to the;   Harlot;   Idolatry;   Love, Lover, Lovely, Beloved;   Paul the Apostle;   Person of Christ;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Alpha and Omega (2);   Atonement (2);   Freedom of the Will;   God;   Guilt (2);   Hardening;   Heart ;   Heathen;   Lust;   Marriage;   Paul;   Romans Epistle to the;   Sin;   Sin (2);   Will;   Worldliness;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Tubal-Cain;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Idolatry;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Essenes, the;   Harlot;   Justification;   Lust;   Uncleanness;   Worship;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for January 26;   Every Day Light - Devotion for October 25;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
People wanted only to do evil. So God left them and let them go their sinful way. And so they became completely immoral and used their bodies in shameful ways with each other.
Revised Standard Version
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Wherfore god lykewyse gave the vp vnto their hertes lustes vnto vnclennes to defyle their awne boddyes bitwene them selves:
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
International Standard Version
For this reason, God gave them over to impurity to follow the luststo impurity in the lusts">[fn] of their hearts and to dishonor their bodies with one another.Leviticus 18:22; Psalm 81:12; Acts 7:42; 1 Corinthians 6:18; Ephesians 4:18-19; 1 Thessalonians 4:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12; 1 Peter 4:3;">[xr]
New American Standard Bible
Therefore God gave them up to vile impurity in the lusts of their hearts, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.
New Century Version
Because they did these things, God left them and let them go their sinful way, wanting only to do evil. As a result, they became full of sexual sin, using their bodies wrongly with each other.
Update Bible Version
Therefore God gave them up in the desires of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies should be shamed among themselves:
Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
English Standard Version
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
World English Bible
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness in the desires of their hearts, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;
Weymouth's New Testament
For this reason, in accordance with their own depraved cravings, God gave them up to uncleanness, allowing them to dishonour their bodies among themselves with impurity.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For which thing God bitook hem in to the desiris of her herte, in to vnclennesse, that thei punysche with wrongis her bodies in hem silf.
English Revised Version
Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonoured among themselves:
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
Contemporary English Version
So God let these people go their own way. They did what they wanted to do, and their filthy thoughts made them do shameful things with their bodies.
American Standard Version
Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:
Bible in Basic English
For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:
Complete Jewish Bible
This is why God has given them up to the vileness of their hearts' lusts, to the shameful misuse of each other's bodies.
Darby Translation
Wherefore God gave them up [also] in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves:
Etheridge Translation
Because of this Aloha delivered them up to the unclean lusts of their hearts, that they would debase their bodies among them.
Murdock Translation
For this cause, God gave them up to the filthy lusts of their heart, to dishonor their bodies with them.
King James Version (1611)
Wherefore God also gaue them vp to vncleannesse, through the lusts of their owne hearts, to dishonour their owne bodies betweene themselues:
New Living Translation
So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other's bodies.
New Life Bible
So God let them follow the desires of their sinful hearts. They did sinful things among themselves with their bodies.
New Revised Standard
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore also God gaue them vp to their hearts lusts, vnto vncleannesse, to defile their owne bodies betweene themselues:
George Lamsa Translation
That is why God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore God gave them up in the covetings of their hearts unto impurity, so as to be dishonouring their bodies among them, -
Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherefore God gaue them vp to vncleanenesse, through the lustes of their owne heartes, to defyle their owne bodies among them selues.
Good News Translation
And so God has given those people over to do the filthy things their hearts desire, and they do shameful things with each other.
Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.
King James Version
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Lexham English Bible
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to immorality, that their bodies would be dishonored among themselves,
Literal Translation
Because of this, God gave them up to impurity in the lusts of their hearts, their bodies to be dishonored among themselves,
Young's Literal Translation
Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore God likewyse gaue them vp vnto their hertes lustes in to vnclennes, to defyle their awne bodies in them selues,
Mace New Testament (1729)
wherefore God abandon'd them to the impure passions of their own hearts, so that they themselves dishonour'd their own bodies;
THE MESSAGE
So God said, in effect, "If that's what you want, that's what you get." It wasn't long before they were living in a pigpen, smeared with filth, filthy inside and out. And all this because they traded the true God for a fake god, and worshiped the god they made instead of the God who made them—the God we bless, the God who blesses us. Oh, yes!
New English Translation
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.
New King James Version
Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,
Simplified Cowboy Version
And so God has let them throw their souls into the pig pen of their nasty desires. The wallow around on each other like flies on crap.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.
Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

Contextual Overview

19because that which is known about God is evident within them [in their inner consciousness], for God made it evident to them. 20For ever since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through His workmanship [all His creation, the wonderful things that He has made], so that they [who fail to believe and trust in Him] are without excuse and without defense. 21For even though they knew God [as the Creator], they did not honor Him as God or give thanks [for His wondrous creation]. On the contrary, they became worthless in their thinking [godless, with pointless reasonings, and silly speculations], and their foolish heart was darkened. 22Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23and exchanged the glory and majesty and excellence of the immortal God for an image [worthless idols] in the shape of mortal man and birds and four-footed animals and reptiles. 24Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their own hearts to [sexual] impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin],25because [by choice] they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. 26For this reason God gave them over to degrading and vile passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural [a function contrary to nature], 27and in the same way also the men turned away from the natural function of the woman and were consumed with their desire toward one another, men with men committing shameful acts and in return receiving in their own bodies the inevitable and appropriate penalty for their wrongdoing. 28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God or consider Him worth knowing [as their Creator], God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do things which are improper and repulsive,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God: Psalms 81:11, Psalms 81:12, Hosea 4:17, Hosea 4:18, Matthew 15:14, Acts 7:42, Acts 14:16, Acts 17:29, Acts 17:30, Ephesians 4:18, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

through the lusts: Romans 6:12

to dishonour: 1 Corinthians 6:13, 1 Corinthians 6:18, 1 Thessalonians 4:4, 2 Timothy 2:20-22

between: Romans 1:27, Leviticus 18:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:5 - General Genesis 19:7 - General 1 Kings 14:24 - And there Jeremiah 4:10 - surely Ezekiel 20:39 - Go ye Luke 15:15 - to feed Romans 1:26 - gave them Romans 9:18 - will he Ephesians 2:3 - in the Ephesians 4:19 - given Ephesians 5:12 - it 1 Thessalonians 4:5 - in the 2 Peter 2:10 - in the

Cross-References

Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place [of standing, pooling together], and let the dry land appear"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:10
God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that this was good (pleasing, useful) and He affirmed and sustained it.
Genesis 6:20
"Of fowls and birds according to their kind, of animals according to their kind, of every crawling thing of the ground according to its kind—two of every kind shall come to you to keep them alive.
Genesis 7:14
they and every animal according to its kind, all the livestock according to their kinds, every moving thing that crawls on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every winged thing of every sort.
Genesis 8:19
Every animal, every crawling thing, every bird—and whatever moves on the land—went out by families (types, groupings) from the ark.
Job 39:1
"Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock give birth [to their young]? Do you observe the calving of the deer?
Job 39:5
"Who sent out the wild donkey free [from dependence on man]? And who has loosed the bonds of the wild donkey [to survive in the wild],
Job 39:9
"Will the wild ox be willing to serve you, Or remain beside your manger at night?
Job 39:19
"Have you given the horse his might? Have you clothed his neck with quivering and a shaking mane?
Job 40:15
"Behold now, Behemoth, which I created as well as you; He eats grass like an ox.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness,.... Not by putting any into them, but by leaving them to the pollution of their nature; by withdrawing his providential restraints from them, and by giving them up to judicial hardness:

through the lusts of their own hearts. The heart of man is the source of all wickedness; the lusts that dwell there are many, and these tend to uncleanness of one sort or another: by it here is meant particularly bodily uncleanness, since it is said they were given up

to dishonour their own bodies between themselves; either alone, or with others; so that as they changed the glory of God, and dishonoured him, he left them to dishonour themselves by doing these things which were reproachful and scandalous to human nature.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore - That is, because they were unwilling to retain him in their knowledge, and chose to worship idols. Here is traced the practical tendency of paganism; not as an innocent and harmless system, but as resulting in the most gross and shameless acts of depravity.

God gave them up - He abandoned them, or he ceased to restrain them, and suffered them to act out their sentiments, and to manifest them in their life. This does not imply, that he exerted any positive influence in inducing them to sin, any more than it would if we should seek, by argument and entreaty, to restrain a headstrong youth, and when neither would prevail, should leave him to act out his propensities. and to go as he chose to ruin. It is implied in this,

  1. That the tendency of man was to these sins;
  2. That the tendency of idolatry was to promote them; and,
  3. That all that was needful, in order that people should commit them, was for God to leave him to follow the devices and desires of his own heart; compare Psalms 81:12; 2Th 2:10, 2 Thessalonians 2:12.

To uncleanness - To impurity, or moral defilement; particularly to those impurities which he proceeds to specify, Romans 1:26, etc.

Through the lusts of their own hearts - Or, in consequence of their own evil and depraved passions and desires. He left them to act out, or manifest, their depraved affections and inclinations.

To dishonour - To disgrace; Romans 1:26-27.

Between themselves - Among themselves; or mutually. They did it by unlawful and impure connections with one another.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 24. God-gave them up, c.] They had filled up the measure of their iniquities, and God, by permitting them to plunge into all manner of irregularities, thus, by one species of sin, inflicted punishment on another.

Dishonour their own bodies — Probably alluding here to what is more openly expressed, Romans 1:26-27.

Between themselves — ενεαυτοις, Of themselves, of their own free accord none inciting, none impelling.


 
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